Re: An FS question perhaps... non blocking I/O.

[John Polstra]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tony Finch  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Are there any standard APIs for doing file meta-operations
> asynchronously? (open, close, creat, link, unlink, etc.)

I only know of one way to do that.  Hand the operation off to a
separate process, using the FD-passing feature of Unix domain sockets
to send the file descriptor back and forth.

John
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  John Polstra                                               [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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